John Downer doing his thing, via The FontFeed
An Exhibition of Hand Lettered Posters by John Downer
Opening Reception Thursday, August 13, 2009 from 8 to 11 p.m.
At RESERVE, 420 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
(directly across from Canter’s Delicatessen) [map]
Details here.
Snapped these while in Reno a few weeks back. Love 1950s vernacular typography, I’ve built an entire font family around this.
Drove the guy at the motel front desk crazy with my flash.
A really nice drug dealer tried to sell me his wares.
I’m not being sarcastic, he was really, really nice.
Took me a long moment before I realized what he was up to.
New logo system and identity for the city of Gent in Belgium. What do you think? Article, critique and discussion at Brand New.
My client, Normandie, is currently touring the known United States.
The band is a side project thunk up by 3 members of theSTART; as a result, the shows become a twofer (two bands in one).
In tow they have a bunch of my tour posters (seen above) as well as some special handmade START cds doodled by the band itself (see below).
Follow their advance across the continent by jumping over to vocalist Aimee Echo’s Twitter page. As of this writing, they seem to be somewhere in the original 13 colonies . . . And may have been replaced by pirates.
Tour dates for both bands can be found on their MySpace pages here and here.
I love good information graphics. And bad information graphics make my eyes bleed.
Check out this redesign by Robert Palmer (and strong letter to Rep. John Boehner) of a recent visual attack on the Democratic Health Plan.
This is an excellent example as to why graphic designers (well trained graphic designers) can do a lot more than just push buttons on a computer. Or make a logo look nice. Good graphic design is about good communication – and can be world changing.
(That’s my soapbox for the day. Thank you for reading.)
Found via Twitter.com/angelaglenn
Photographic Quaker Oats advertisement, 1897
I always thought the Quaker Oats guy was Benjamin Franklin.
He actually started as a printer’s cut – clip art, in today’s terms – that was selected to go on the Oats packaging to show ‘purity.’ Quakers always looked pure, let’s sell some oats with that in mind.
Benjamin Franklin was really smart, not quite pure though.
Robust and playful, Organon is Nick Cook’s new superset type family – now available thru Fontworks UK. Click on the links above to order. Detailed release notes can be also be found in this post at Typophile.
As for the moniker, Nick says, ‘I got the name from the first line of ‘Cloudbusting’ by Kate Bush.’
Found via Twitter.com/typegirl
PSFK takes a look at the new interiors for Starbuck’s great brand experiment, 15th Avenue E Coffee and Tea. Feels a smidgen like Peet’s, the other high end coffee house chain that used to own Starbucks.
Typophile Film Fest 5 Trailer from Typophile on Vimeo
Preview for Punchcut’s 5th Typophile Film Fest. Typographic films, shorts and more. Here’s a list of who’s showing.
The Fest is confirmed for Typ09, the 2009 ATypI conference in Mexico City, October 29th. And coming to other places too.
Watch this beautiful title sequence for Francis Ford Coppola’s TETRO. Designed by SFAUSTINA. Both avant garde and not at the same time.
And . . . I’ve always wondered why so many motion picture title sequences end with a shot of a bus.
Found via Twitter.com/Typegirl
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